Twelve students of the Regent University College of Science and Technology, alongside over 2,000 other students from over 25 countries around the world, will today, September 8, 2011, receive the prestigious Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Maastricht School of Management (MSM), the largest international business school in The Netherlands. Graduating with the 12 is Joanna Adjoa Komey, a Regent-Ghana alumnus, who got an MSM-Regent scholarship to do the one-year course. Mr Abbrey Asamoah-Duodu, an employee of the Christian Council of Ghana, has been adjudged the overall best student of the graduating class of 2011. The Guest Speaker for the programme, Prof. Emmanuel Kingsley Larbi, President and CEO of Regent-Ghana, in a pre-departure interview granted Monday, disclosed that he would be stressing the need for tertiary institutions in Africa to produce visionary, ethical and selfless leaders who would drive the continent’s socio-economic and political agenda to enable the well-endowed continent assume its leadership role in the world. Prof. Larbi emphasised that “it is when conscious efforts are made by governments, public-spirited individuals and organisations to address inequities and injustices of our world, that there shall be peace in our communities and in our world.” The graduating students constitute intake two in the three-year-old affiliation between Regent and Maastricht. The Maastricht School of Management (MSM) has its roots in the "Researchinstituut voor bedrijfswetenschappen (Research Institute for Management Science) at the Technical University in Delft, dating back to 1952. In 1989 the school relocated to the historical city of Maastricht and, in 1993, its name changed to the Maastricht School of Management. More than 2500 participants from over 30 different countries graduate annually with either a Master’s or a Doctorate degrees in Business Administration, or obtain diplomas from any of the School’s Executive programmes. For more than half a century, Maastricht School of Management (MSM) has focused on international co-operation, combining education, technical assistance and research in its professional services. High-quality management degree programmes (MBA, EMBA, MM, DBA, PhD) are offered worldwide in its outreach programmes.